Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

Drugs to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases - such as asthma, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis or Chrousos syndrome - act mainly through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). This essential protein ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

Astronomers have detected signs of complex organic molecules, the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it, in a planet-forming disk around a distant star. The findings imply that the ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...